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August 18, 2009

Getting Noticed

After decades of raunch, where girls fell out of clubs and dresses in a bid to Get Noticed, it's all about to get a whole lot more, well, wholesome.

Now, it's about the intelligent, the home-loving and the fresh-faced.

Leader of the pack is Harry Potter actress Emma Watson.

With her pretty face and non-aggressive demeanour, she comes across as an exemplary role model.

She is bright (off to Brown University in the U.S.), beautiful (good skin, good hair, good genes) and highly sought after by directors and designers.

And what does she talk about in interviews? How much she loves her family!

It's the new wholesomeness - and it's very IN.

Do me a favor: if you know something bad about her, leave me my illusions. I'd almost lost hope that there were any young women out there who don't feel it necessary to take their clothes off for the camera, gyrate around stripper poles, or make sex tapes with their boyfriends.

Perhaps there is some hope for my sex after all.

Posted by Cassandra at August 18, 2009 01:30 PM

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I have high hopes for Miss Watson. I am a fan of the Harry Potter movies (though I haven't seen the most recent one - no one to see it with being one reason: my sisters don't want to see it in the theater :-|) I am a little disappointed with Daniel Radcliffe, though, with his performance in some stage play titled "Equus" a few years ago...

I find something mildly disturbing about the "good skin, good hair, good genes" description. I do suspect there are plenty of girls & women that make great role models out there. Sadly the media isn't interested in them.

Maybe I can catch a screening this weekend. The team is in town, but I was able to get Saturday off so I could attend my second cousin's 3rd birthday party and hopefully (if I don't land a teaching job) be introduced to his aunt on the other side of his family who is an assistant principal at the neighborhood elementary... That's not until 4pm, so I can maybe make an early screening. I've seen all the movies up until now, and I have read all the books, so I know what to expect, plot-wise...

Emma Watson is very wholesome by comparison, and the movie roles she has done since Potter seem to bear that theme out; 'Ballet Shoes,' and 'Tales of Despereaux.' I think she is on the creative side and is well-dressed. She truly is a lovely young lady.

No, sir, a semester at brown will not "bring this young lady down to earth." Any young lady can get that experience in exchange for the minimum wage at the local Happy Hamburger.

The purpose of college is not to instill knowledge, but to tempt learning in the individual; to pose questions that could never be raised over the din of family noise (or, in many cases, couldn't even dare be asked over the fear of recrimination). College takes the stupid, and vulernable, and shy among us and shocks us out of everything that we thought we knew beforehand. For some it's hello critical thinking. For others, it's beer pong. Nevertheless, if you can survive the experience, you'll be fully prepared to spot the jackass in the crowd.

Don't forget to casually mention that the seams in the basement flooring are allowing radon and thoron to seep continually into the building, and the brick/granite/what-have-you comprising the walls are not only trapping it inside, but are themselves radon emitters.

Remind them that being startled by that information is one of the warning signs of radon inspiration...